The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-04
LEE RENFROs DEATH
Act Fourth In tho Bloody Tragedy 81 SAs
Cottonw cod Ranch.
From the apache Crttlc

By way Of preface to the detailed reports
q the killing Of that dastardly murderer. Lee
Renlro, which h., occurred on the sth Of this
murdered Isaac N. EiIinser Well known il this
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Mexso and knoyn s ss' the as ranss
the pronsrtv. NJ Eiiinssr had DareSssed tie
place more than g year previous. and had made
q Nove%Ss RIA last h. n esmnany With WSs
p Plummer, went to the Clanton ranch. and.
ao ana est Dinner s Ss: s sG
and Phjp ganton. Leo Renlro. and Bill jack.
passed. The aTst g finish eating we're %r:
a sss and Ike ea shS
ten Or sps They had
was reported had been said about the jumping
Of the ranch, at the same time picking up his
Elk shooter from the table and walking toward
At this juncture Ike Clanton stepped in be.
and sso sser
breast: Mr.. Eliinfer lived several days IN
sea'R End
wound, asked for a horse. which was at once
and has been sku!Eing in the. mountains Il
Arizona the most Of the time since q fugitive
from lustlcss. with no other company than out
!. Is strange how this kind Of characters. in
spite OF their preca1ti9ns meet their doom.
camped in a canon opening out on the Rio Bo-
nito, In the mountains on the Apache Indian
the same date Secret Service ofilcsr. sccom-
panied by three men furnished him by the
neighborhood whers Renfro and his company
riding across plateau they. observed q man
come out Of canon r.; . S6Sus iSo yaras distant
.'"Yeu fellows ride over to that man and ten
him that We are p% The Southern
want to question him about the trails"
The two men rode over to the man In his
moments. they together returned to where they
had, left the offlcer, and his. remaining com:
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In front Sf Els horse and called out. '''N
,ng Lee lee a RsnrS w throw up your hands repeat
kenirS, instead q oeeying the command. At
Of the heart and loft lung Rsnfro feii. The
officer run to him. and Renfro. calling him By
name, asked:
Ths Ky fhSSs 'sF hps you sssaa..
you resisted arrest" .
Renfro, then said: IT suppose it 10 all up with
me-" and asked the officer to take his watch
and other effects he had on his person and
send them TO his brother In Cowboy Texas,
his last.
This man Renfro was an abject and seryiIe
tool Of Ike Clanton, who met the same fate
but q few weeks before. and they both occupy
untimely graves within twenty miles OF each
other In the wilds of the White Mountains It
fs remarkable the swift and terrific retribution
which has followed every man closely con-
nected with the jumping of the Cottonwood
ranch and the murder OF Ike EllinRer
Craig. the man who jumped the ranch, was
shot and Killed at Fairyiew. N. NJ. In a drunken
wrangle over a race horse; Ike Clnnton, who
was present when Elinger was shot down fol-
lowed closely in CraiR's trail, leading into the
dark valley OF death. and now comes on the
same CHASTITY trail the auaking. ehnRing, muir.
derouB soul OF Lee Reniro, all crimsoned with
the blood OF an honest citizen. rushing head
long in quest Of the kindred splrits who have so
shortly preceded him into the great un.
known" that undiscovered country from
whence no traveller returns"
Thus ends the fourth act IN the bloody trag-
edy OF the murder OF Isaac Ellinger.